The Resurrection of Christ

Details

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Venice 1682-1754)
The Resurrection of Christ
signed 'Jo. Batta. Piazzetta fecit' (lower right)
black chalk, watermark crossbow
15 x 10 5/8 in. (38.1 x 26.9 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 November 1971, lot 75.

Literature

C. Sewter and D.M. White, 'Two newly discovered drawings by Piazzetta', The Connoisseur, no. 183, May 1973, p. 357, ill.
G. Knox, Piazzetta. A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Books, exhib. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1983, p. 206, under no. 94.

Engraved

by Francesco Bartolozzi, after 1754.

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Lot Essay

Tightly drawn in black chalk, this sheet served as the design for Francesco Bartolozzi’s engraving of the subject presumably made after 1754 (see Knox, op. cit.). Its pendant, also engraved by Bartolozzi, shows the Assumption of the Virgin (ibid., no. 94, ill.).

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